Spanish hogfish

noun

: a gold and bluish-purple wrasse (Bodianus rufus) inhabiting shallow-water reefs of the western Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea from Florida to Brazil

called also ladyfish

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